Financial institutions; FFS, grow a pair

[sasguru]

cos we are not dull enough to test software i guess

FTFY.
FFS How dull is testing software? Can't you even write it?

[Mich the Tester]

FTFY.
FFS How dull is testing software? Can't you even write it?

So dull I'm off to lunch.

[shaunbhoy]

I work in a niche industry.
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Rubbish. I'll bet the only reason you are still in post is because you are so far up your Manager's @rse that you can see your Supervisor's ankles!!

[sasguru]

Rubbish. I'll bet the only reason you are still in post is because you are so far up your Manager's @rse that you can see your Supervisor's ankles!!

Speaking of impoverished moronic peasants ....

[2BIT]

FTFY.
FFS How dull is testing software? Can't you even write it?

tis true, testing has to be the worst job you can do in a software project - last three projects I've been on the testers have generally a feckless bunch incapable of deviating from very prescriptive work methods and who seem to put more onus on the admin of the testing process rather than the actual testing....

that said I always wanted to be a tester since being a young lad but have been time and time again that im too useful as someone who actually produces output to be a tester

[2BIT]

Rubbish. I'll bet the only reason you are still in post is because you are so far up your Manager's @rse that you can see your Supervisor's ankles!!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to shaunbhoy again. - stop being funny shaunbhoy

[shaunbhoy]

FFS Can't you even outsource it to Bob to write it for you once you realise it is way beyond your ken?

FTFY

[DimPrawn]

If you invest for the long term in solid companies that pay regular and rising dividends, the financial markets don't affect you because the latter don't affect dividend yields from solid companies.

It's only a problem if you need to sell out quickly or invest in junk stock (like Lloyds).

That may have been true 10 years ago, when the stock market was about investments, however the rise of the machines and the traders means it's a traders market now. Buy and hold is dead, unless you plan to hold them for 20 years or more.

The cult of equity is dead, long live equities - Telegraph

The headline findings are reasonably familiar ones. If you had invested $100 in US equities in 1900, with reinvested dividends it would today be worth $22m, against just $191,000 for bonds. Expressed in real terms (after adjusting for inflation), the numbers are in some respects even more remarkable. Equities have shown an 851-fold increase, against just 7.5 for US Treasuries.

If these rates of return had proceeded evenly in a straight line, then investment would be a dull and predictable business. Tens of thousands of pundits, both gainful and more usually un-gainful, would be out of a job. Fortunately for them, equity prices are highly volatile, while even government bonds are subject to inflation, currency and sovereign credit risk. They are always on the move, generally in quite unpredicable ways.

Since the trough of the credit crunch in March 2009, UK equities have recovered 87pc, and emerging markets by a jaw-dropping 150pc. Rarely have rates of return been so good.

But these gains followed dramatic falls in the preceding year and a half, and in neither the US nor the UK have equities yet recovered to their pre-crisis highs. Worse, this is the second bear market for equities in less than a decade. Even with dividends reinvested, you'd be down on your money so far this century.

[sasguru]

That may have been true 10 years ago, when the stock market was about investments, however the rise of the machines and the traders means it's a traders market now. Buy and hold is dead, unless you plan to hold them for 20 years or more.

The cult of equity is dead, long live equities - Telegraph

The headline findings are reasonably familiar ones. If you had invested $100 in US equities in 1900, with reinvested dividends it would today be worth $22m, against just $191,000 for bonds. Expressed in real terms (after adjusting for inflation), the numbers are in some respects even more remarkable. Equities have shown an 851-fold increase, against just 7.5 for US Treasuries.

If these rates of return had proceeded evenly in a straight line, then investment would be a dull and predictable business. Tens of thousands of pundits, both gainful and more usually un-gainful, would be out of a job. Fortunately for them, equity prices are highly volatile, while even government bonds are subject to inflation, currency and sovereign credit risk. They are always on the move, generally in quite unpredicable ways.

Since the trough of the credit crunch in March 2009, UK equities have recovered 87pc, and emerging markets by a jaw-dropping 150pc. Rarely have rates of return been so good.

But these gains followed dramatic falls in the preceding year and a half, and in neither the US nor the UK have equities yet recovered to their pre-crisis highs. Worse, this is the second bear market for equities in less than a decade. Even with dividends reinvested, you'd be down on your money so far this century.

Of course the stock market is all about the medium/long term i.e. 20 years, Only desperate impoverished chancers like you use it as a casino where you win some and lose some.
I'm still steadily putting away a few thousand every month in a conservative and geographically diversified portfolio.
BTW if you want a proper stock marrket fall look at what happened in the 1930s depression - Yet those who had a long term view that ecompassed this period still made money.

[DimPrawn]

Of course the stock market is all about the medium/long term i.e. 20 years, Only desperate impoverished chancers like you use it as a casino where you win some and lose some.
I'm still steadily putting away a few thousand every month in a conservative and geographically diversified portfolio.
BTW if you want a proper stock marrket fall look at what happened in the 1930s depression - Yet those who had a long term view that ecompassed this period still made money.

Yeah, right. Those that had a lot of money in stocks in the 1930's where going places.

Head first into the pavement at 130 MPH.



Good luck "investing" in a "casino" market place.